In diesem Stil die heutigen Nachrichten vortragen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the course of the last years,\u201d write Danek and Hagel, \u201cwe have developed a technique of singing the Homeric epics, which is appropriate for the primarily oral tradition from which these poems emerge.\u201d The two scholars caution that their theoretical recreations are \u201cnot to be understood as the exact reconstruction of a given melody, but as an approach to the technique the Homeric singers used to accommodate melodic principles to the demands of the individual verse.\u201d Accompanied by a four-stringed lyre-like instrument called a phorminx, \u201cthe Homeric bard\u201d would improvise the \u201cmelody at the same time as he improvised his text, which was unique in every performance.\u201d In the audio above, you can hear Danek and Hagel\u2019s melodic recreation of lines 267-366 of book 8 of the Odyssey, in which Demodocus sings about the love of Ares and Aphrodite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n